Bibliomania: Or Book-madness ; a Bibliographical Romance ; Illustrated with CutsHenry G. Bohn, 1842 - 618 ページ |
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... Decameron of Boccaccio ! This precious volume is now reposing upon the deserted shelves of the late Duke of Roxburgh's library ; and , at the forth - coming sale of the same , it will be most vigorously contended for by all the higher ...
... Decameron of Boccaccio ! This precious volume is now reposing upon the deserted shelves of the late Duke of Roxburgh's library ; and , at the forth - coming sale of the same , it will be most vigorously contended for by all the higher ...
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... Decameron , vol . iii . p . 353. Poor Mr. BARKER ( Edmund Henry ) , who is handsomely mentioned in the Dean's letter , has very lately taken his departure from us , for that quiet which he could not find upon earth . Take him for all in ...
... Decameron , vol . iii . p . 353. Poor Mr. BARKER ( Edmund Henry ) , who is handsomely mentioned in the Dean's letter , has very lately taken his departure from us , for that quiet which he could not find upon earth . Take him for all in ...
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... Decameron , vol . iii . p . 363-6 . Since the pub- lication of that work , a curious history attaches to his memory . Within a twelvemonth of the expiration of the statute of limitation , an action at law , in the shape of an ejectment ...
... Decameron , vol . iii . p . 363-6 . Since the pub- lication of that work , a curious history attaches to his memory . Within a twelvemonth of the expiration of the statute of limitation , an action at law , in the shape of an ejectment ...
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... Decameron , vol . iii . p . 5 , ample mention is made of him ; and here it is , to me , an equally grateful and delightful task to record the worth , as well as the existence , of his two sons , Isaac and Thomas , each a minister of the ...
... Decameron , vol . iii . p . 5 , ample mention is made of him ; and here it is , to me , an equally grateful and delightful task to record the worth , as well as the existence , of his two sons , Isaac and Thomas , each a minister of the ...
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... Decameron , vol . iii . p . — ) and secondly in that of the late Sir M. M. Sykes , Bart . ( who had purchased the book for £ 782 ) — did all that human powers could do , to obtain a higher bidding - but Messrs . Payne and Foss , with ...
... Decameron , vol . iii . p . — ) and secondly in that of the late Sir M. M. Sykes , Bart . ( who had purchased the book for £ 782 ) — did all that human powers could do , to obtain a higher bidding - but Messrs . Payne and Foss , with ...
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106 ページ - Waken, lords and ladies gay, On the mountain dawns the day ; All the jolly chase is here, With hawk and horse and hunting-spear; Hounds are in their couples yelling. Hawks are whistling, horns are knelling, Merrily merrily mingle they: Waken, lords and ladies gay...
267 ページ - I took, early in the morning, a good dose of elixir, and hung three spiders about my neck ; and they drove my ague away. Deo gratias.
211 ページ - I know a merchant-man which shall at this time be nameless, that bought the contents of two noble libraries for forty shillings...
333 ページ - How fluent nonsense trickles from his tongue ! How sweet the periods, neither said, nor sung ! Still break the benches, Henley ! with thy strain, While Sherlock, Hare, and Gibson preach in vain. Oh, great restorer of the good old stage, Preacher at once, and zany of thy age ! Oh, worthy thou of Egypt's wise abodes, A decent priest, where monkeys were the gods...
559 ページ - The true Tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, and the death of good King Henrie the Sixt, with the whole contention betweene the two Houses Lancaster and Yorke, as it was sundrie times acted by the Right Honourable the Earle of Pembrooke his seruants.
271 ページ - This drew to the place a mighty trade, the rather because the shops were spacious, and the learned gladly resorted to them, where they seldom failed to meet with agreeable conversation ; and the booksellers themselves were knowing and conversible men, with whom, for the sake of bookish Knowledge, the greatest wits were pleased to converse...
272 ページ - ... up an octavo to a sufficient thickness ; and there is six shillings current for an hour and a half's reading, and perhaps never to be read or looked upon after. One that would go higher must take his fortune at blank walls and corners of streets, or repair to the sign of Bateman, Innys, and one or two more where are best choice and better pennyworths. I might touch other abuses, as bad paper, incorrect printing, and false advertising ; all which and worse is to be expected if a careful author...
394 ページ - The first part of the true and honorable history, of the life of Sir John Old-castle, the good Lord Cobham.
391 ページ - William Shake-speare, His True Chronicle History of the life and death of King Lear, and his three Daughters.
211 ページ - A great number of them which purchased those superstitious mansions, reserved of those library books, some to serve their Jakes, some to scour their candlesticks, and some to rub their boots. Some they sold to the grocers and soap sellers, and some they sent over sea to the bookbinders, not in small number, but at times whole ships full, to the wondering of the foreign nations.